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Website Offers Fuel Cell Emergency Training

The 2016 Toyota Mirai fuel cell sedan is due to hit U.S. roads in the fall. Photo courtesy of Toyota.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s fuel cell technologies office announced the launch of a new website devoted to fuel cell vehicle safety training for emergency responders.

The website materials, developed by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the California Fuel Cell Partnership, will help government and private training groups to develop their own curriculum with consistent content and standards, said the California Fuel Cell Partnership.

Additionally, this free resource will help eliminate duplicative efforts among various training programs.

Legislation

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Toyota's Mirai will add a pair of safety packages for the 2019 model year, as the company continues to offer the hydrogen fuel cell vehicle mostly on retail leases to private owners, according to the company.

The California Air Resources Board has preliminarily awarded $41 million to the Port of Los Angeles to establish network to transport goods throughout southern California using hydrogen fuel cell electric trucks.

The California Fuel Cell Partnership (CaFCP) published a strategic vision that details the significance of establishing a self-sustaining market for fuel cell vehicles, which includes establishing 1,000 hydrogen fueling stations in the state by 2030.

In what could be good news for the growth and adoption of hydrogen-fuel-cell-vehicles, an Australian agency says it has developed a way to create hydrogen from ammonia – and ammonia is far easier to store and transport than hydrogen. In fact, Ammonia stores almost twice as much energy as liquid hydrogen.